Experience

• Sr Designer Graphique / Matte painter / Concept Artist at Alchemy 24

  Montréal, CA

  April 2023 - Present

• Art director at Salambo Productions

  Montréal, Canada

  August 2017 - Present

  I worked as an art director/concept artist on a Teletoon's TV animation show called ''Les histoires bizarres du professeur Zarbi''. The show lasted 3 seasons.
  
  Here are few exemples of my functions as an art director when I was working at Salambo productions:
  
  -Approving of the characters, props and bgs designs, from concept to final version .
  
  -Managing the design team (assigning the assets and the deadlines, formation and evaluations of the artists, one on one, hiring and interviews, HR problems solving, etc...)
  
  -Controlling the quality of the assets (artistically and technically), giving retakes, refs or making paintover to reach the requested quality
  
  -Designing the early sketches of all the characters, following the creative director vision
  
  -write referencial technical documents, art bible, checklist to help artists understanding all the technical aspect of the puppets
  
  -Solving any design majo problem. Regrouping with others leads if needed
  
  -Create the concept and the design of the show and the main character (episode 01)
  
  - I also write the synopsis and/or the first scenario version, of 5 zarbis's episodes.

• Artiste 2D / Concept artist at Lucky Hammer

  Montreal, Canada

  February 2015 - July 2017

  I worked as a concept artist for VR games (Ape-X VR, Knightfall VR, Wabi VR, SPK zombie invasion VR) and before that I worked as a 2D artist/2D animaor for Mobile games (SPK Candy Defense, LGDT 3D, 2d Nickelodeon games, 2d Disney games...). The styles of the games were really differents, from cartoon to realistic. I designed environments, characters and props. I also worked a lot on texturing using photoshop and maya.

• 2D Animator at Toutenkartoon

  Montréal, Canada

  September 2014 - February 2015

  I worked as a 2D animator on the episodes EP57, EP58, EP66, EP68, EP72, EP74 of the TV serie ''Hubert et Takako'', produced by Xilam

• Freelance illlustrator / 2D animator at Freelance

  Nantes, France

  September 2009 - September 2014

  I worked as an illlustrator and 2D animator for mobile games, advertising/website agencies, boardgames and book editors. I also taught art workshops for schools and animation centers.